Saina Sunder dances at fundraiser

More than 1,000 people, dressed in colorful traditional Indian clothing, attended a fundraiser organized by Shakti Foundation at the United Sports Training Center in West Bradford to celebrate the Indian festival of Navaratri in October. It is the annual Dandiya Raas fundraiser organized to help support people and organizations that provide care and enrichment to adults and children with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Pictured is Saina Sunder, 3½, of Exton, dancing with dandiya sticks. Shakti Youth members’ contributions to the community range from shopping, cooking, delivering and serving food at the Coatesville homeless shelter once a month to volunteering at local hospitals and Exton Senior Living. This summer the group donated back-to-school supplies to children at the Coatesville soup kitchen.